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oh well, it just goes to show that even when things are moving along nicely, something can always happen to cause disappointment and consternation. It seems that life truly is not always a bed of roses. Yesterday was one of those days. Things had been going along swimmingly for some time, me finding a 3 storey 7-11 and Pdoggg having a new big store opening near him. How wonderful life was. so Grunt! what has happened? i hear you all gasp with concern. Well i'll tell you, but please no PMs filled with sorrow and sympathy, it will take time but we will recover no doubt. I met up with a certain moderator yesterday, but to preserve privacy i won't give you his name, i can tell you though that it wasn't the mod who lives in Ireland and wears XXXL size shirts nowadays {ha! i bet you thought we had all forgotten about that BB!] anyway, that certain mod who is not Irish and myself had a coffee from the new Santa cups on the 2nd floor of the 3 storey 7-11. Wonderful, life was replete. To make the day even more exciting, we decided to mosey along the beach to the new store in pratumnak. so, there we moseyed to find that the store has a new wonderful coffee machine with all the bells and whistles.. honestly it looked like a command console that has been designed for the moon-rocket that a certain Thai minister has announced recently will orbit the moon in 7 years time. Maybe sooner if they can obtain a strong-enough rubber band. If it crashes into the moon they can always blame brake failure. but i digress... none of the staff knew how to work the damn thing, i'm not having a go at them by the way. I doubt that Bill Gates could have worked it either. We waited so long for the damn coffee that we actually took turns to stand in the queue. I kid you not. eventually we got the drink to find.... it wasn't in the new cups! it was in the old design cups... can you believe that!? so, don't worry about all the shit that is happening throughout the world... shit happens here too.

I post to remind everyone in pattaya that my bar and all bars will close from 6 pm tomorrow. Saturday 19th and re-open on Sunday 20th at 6 pm. Thank you Emmy

While, as part of the Romscar ceremonies, I drew the cartoon of the 2 lovely ladies, it was BBG who went out of his way to package it into something they must be so touched and proud to have received. To that end, BBG mobilized his pal Quinn. If I had known they were going to do it, I would have spent a little more time to draw a better likeness of Teya. Also if I knew BBG and Quinn would ever do one like that for me, I would break rules and award a Romscar to myself to hang their framed rendition in my shack... cheers

Thank you very much Quinn and BBG. Me and Teya are very cute cartoons. hahaha

Time came out with their top 100 photos of the year. Many had to do with protests. Hong Kong Brooklyn MAGA Protesters Bangkok

here you go Rom. your joint Rom/Quinn collaboration now proudly framed and on display in Emmy's

Framed !

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There will be a new lockdown in Wales from 28 December too, and Scottish Government is also considering another lockdown after Xmas. I expect England is likely to impose a new lockdown too after Boxing Day or in the New Year as cases are rising steeply. Might put paid to my Cuba trip in the New Year.

In Northern Ireland lockdown measures will happen after boxing day, and down in the wonderful Republic we could be back with lockdown by NYE what a great way to un-welcome in 2021

Not true, QG. Sorry to burst your bubble. The political opposition ( conservatives) like to think so, but the governments and peoples, me included, support of him is still solid. I hate to think about how bad the rightwing with support of the neo nazi party ( think Trump and Boris) would have screwed things up.

Jasmine is back :-) Dew, Bella, Dao, Jessie

A date for your diary chaps.

She was looking as good as ever that wonderful winters’s afternoon.

This is funny and I know it bears no relationship to lb's but then with the teasing, maybe it does?. 550176241_FlirtingwithDEATH1.mp4